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118 EAST 54TH STREET 
NEW YORK
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Dictated December 14th.
December 16th, 1912.

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^[[Mary E. Dreier]]

Dearest Dodo:

I hope that you will forgive me for missing Saturday's steamer again, as I was in Chicago and had very busy days at the National Progressive Party Conference, and there wasn't any time to write.

I wish I knew where you are going to be Christmas. This is to be my Christmas letter which will surely reach you on time to wish you much joy and Christmas cheer, and a happy Christmas time wherever you may be. We shall miss you very much and wish you were here with us, but, I hope, wherever it will be that you will celebrate, you will know that our loving thoughts follow you.

I wrote you all about the hearings last week, and I am most grateful to have this week gone also. The next wont be quite so heavy.

Sunday night I had to make a speech in Brooklyn on what the Factory Investigating Commission had done, and, then, I caught the train to Buffalo, getting there in time for a hearing in that city. It was the most stupid hearing we had, and as dull as a door nail. The men spoke in such low voices that you could scarcely hear, and they presented their criticisms on the bills so badly, with a few exceptions. Towards the end of the hearing, a man got up, really, just  because he had a vibrant voice, and stated his case clearly,

[[stamp]] ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART [[/stamp]]
^[[Mrs Peter Voorhees 1959]]

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Some weird spacing cleared up